<span>Although some New England farmers exported grain and livestock, many could barely feed themselves and their families because the poor soil made farming difficult. New Englanders therefore turned to alternative occupations, trading with the West Indies and developing fishing, small manufacturing, and shipbuilding</span>
I think you're asking whom he lost to, in that case it was Woodrow Wilson
<u><em>Abraham Lincoln our 16th President assassinated by John Wilkes Booth on Friday, April 14, 1865, while attending to play the President Act In Washington D.C</em></u>
British North America. In 1860, British North America was made up of scattered colonies (Canada, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, Newfoundland, Vancouver Island and British Columbia.